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TTTl TT r XX v yv jid Y a DEVOTED TO THE IHTEEESTS OF SOUTHPOBT AHD BBUHST7ICK C0U1TTY. .ftOUTIIPOKT, X. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 27 1HOI. vo . 2.-Xo. 27. nricK pivi: cents WASHINGTON HEWS. :o:- CATHEBED BY THE -LEADER'S" SPECIAL COEEESPOHDEMT. 'Asma;aTo D. C August 24. KB' preseutative Hare, of Texas, is i to n and he is full of intetcstiug f4lk about things of national import anC4,. He says Governor -Hogg is afraid to call au extra session of the legislature on account of the Senatorial Mt nation, although the people are nju-tly'in favor of one. He says also lhat Representative Mills cannot be elected to the Senate because of hia having loo many bitter enemies in the State and that, he thinks, .Judge Oul 4Ttson would bo the next Senator from 'iVxaH. if ho wants the place, w lift Iter the election xs at an extra or the regular session of the legislature. 'J'hi-.if 1 rue, ..put a spokejn the wheel f the scheme which has been much talked of here to get Mills elected to tl,. S-nale at an extra session of th legislature, Tn order to get him out of tin speakership fitfhL- By the way, s leaking of the Sneaker j, a Tammany tfitiii crat who h rredttnl with knowing whereof he fc'.-tk.". "says that the twenty-three "democrats of Xew York have been jh.I-1 on the Speakership, that one of tlj.-m is for Mills, ix for McMillin, and' i.teen for Crisp. As the unit rulewill.be observed .in' -the caucus, uith the exception of Representative Tracv who refuses to be bound there- hvatid u..o will vote for Mills. Crisp ..-Ml ..r tuotifr.f nv if f m Vfita - N eretarv Xoble is again on hand, has resigned or that In? intends to re Hgu. Whatever he may have been he'veral months ago, when the reiort got out that li intended to resign on urcoui't if bad health, he certainly i-n't a s-iek man now. The .American. Association for the Advancement of Science, which ha. been in session here since last -Wednesday, has a bout concluded its busi ness, and the members-, are now en gaged in enjoying themselves by sighi b ring and other- methods just like ordinary folks. Can lager lieer be taken legally into 'Indian Territory and be sold- there? The quest :o:i has been raised by some lody, and the Trasury, War and Interior Departments are all interested in its answer "Ardent spirits," or -Spirituous liquors' are prohibited by Statute from being taken into or sold in me inuian country, out juugea having jurisdiction of the Territory have diilerel in the construction ol this Sfatute, some - holding that it in cluded beer, and one, the other, day, that it did not. The Secretary of the Interior thinks ivs a violation of the ilint, if not the. letter o the law to tell beer in the Territory, and he has requested the Coin tillssloiier of Internal Revenue to prevent the admission ot any more beer into the Terrilory, but that official has not yet decided what. if any, steps he will take in the matter The Secretary has directed that al jKickages of beer in the Territory bo eized. Washington now wants everything that is going. The delegates from the District of Columbia- department of the Union Veteran's Union "Carried a hearty invitation to the national meet ingoftho Union whidi convenes: at , Cleveland. Ohio, to-morrow, to hold its.iM. A,.niu Mnw iva uiai me ij, a; I., .encampment will be here, and notwif hstaiiding that yesterday was"JSutiday inany of our leading citizens were dorrig mssiouary" work in the ranks erf :ttie 'departments of M assachtiseTt;"M atffff.e V Hamp shire and , Ycrmoatthe .toembers cf which stopped here en route to Clove land. Washington is also after all the lolitical coifroutions next jear.;-: " It is statetfjat determined offort js to be made'jQ ?t ilrHarrtonJio "Ploint asiuWbV tiWL iXiBragg, of Alabama orth, Ibter-SuU'Com-pierce Connnissieij, who . died ; last week, a Fariuers Alliance xnaiij( not a member:, of the order; one wb. is known to be sympathy with its arms. Jt is cjaimed by the Alliance ; men that'ar driven to madness by hunger. 1 their numbers and their direct interest m matters pertaining to Inter-State Commerce entitle them to be repre sented upon the Inter-State Commerce, Commission.and they will be supported by a number of influential republicans who believe it would be good politics for Mr. Harrison to publicly recognize the Alliance, and if the 'Alliance man selected be a democrat, it is not t l...x, ..t would do much kicking, as they are particularly desirous just at this time ,J .,.B,iiw (. h. All,9n,,. - 1 Thn ttme of tho 'vm Fnn, ! i ii.. . . no iimiJic cxi v Liiac LtiuLtr ia ii uui i in. the charge that Senator I'effer has been misrepresenting the mortgage in debtedness of Kansas, and. they have obtainel the official figures from the Census Bureau to substantiate tiieir statement. These figures give the mortgage indebtedness of Kansas for the past ten years $482,700,000, of which there remained . unpaid ;at the close of the Census year 2.io,000,000. The total iium.ber of mortgages was Cl'0,000; the per capita debt was $100; 71 per cent were on farms; 28 per cent are subj.ct to 10 per cent interest; 7 per ce nt to 12 rer cent interest and some of them are reported to be sub- ject to 4 0 per cent interest.- FOREIGN NEWS. Brief 3Itnt IoiiIiik of the ItifH in tltf Old World. Ten men were killed and forty in j tired by tlie fall of a scaffold at Xor- leuhamin, -in the (J rand Duchv of Oldenburg, last week. Thus. Eddingtou Sa Co., iron found rs in Olasgow, have failel. Their iabilities are placed at $250,000. -, Kohlenufer's oil refinery at Berlin. was ourneu , last lnursuav. rmir tho.isand casks exploded, (leading the streets of the city with blaz'iig oil and Ciiising great danger to the pubhe. Tl.ere was, however, no loss of life. Thi ( jovcrnnn nt of China has been notified 03- tlu? (lovernmeiit ol Great Britain, that henceforth no British officers will be allowed to serve in the Chinese navy. The reports just received from the Island of Martinique show that" the j first repor's did not give the full ex tend of the fearful hurricane It is now said that 340 people were killed n the coast and interior towns. Severe earthquake shocks were felt Saturday in the central part of Lisboi . N'o damage, however, was reported. It is announced from Panama that the 'Venezuelan Congress has rejected.! Blaine's proosod reciprocity treaty. The imperial ukase prohibiting the exportation of rye from Kussia afier August 27th, lias been, extended to Finland. Iiight Hon. ' Henry Cecil Haikes, j M. P.. Postmaster General of England, died last Monday. Xews, has been received in London of a decisivo battle having been fought between Chilean troops and insurgents, beginning last Fiidav. It is now thought that the end of the war is near at hand. Mr. ami Mrs. Henry M. Stanley are now in Paris. Mr. Stauley has almost recovered from the recunt injury to his lex- n - iv,; L - i .. . . . -.U - . . nor Klnore as at,v ,l .r 1 11111311.1 J 1. a uiuixiu iaaiii7 Carbajal as Minister of Finance. vv"""."v v ":-v-r-- - Fair, have arrived at Sl Petersburg, f I Russia, and have had satisfactory m-. 1. ., ,1 ' i,.r f;;ti--' jlerviews with the Russian Minister; with regard to. co-operation at the VorIds Fair. " . Ardino. tA s, letter received bv a IL w' t a nrnni,. teva from a "friend "at Chihuahua, MexicoVj ' . there is a widespread famine in tlut I Sunday. Angust-23. . : .l; Stated berohasrbeenno; rain iuj Chandler Bros doing a real estate anvSctionso'f tiiat iate for nearly Uud saving bank business 'at Mont - J : " I two years. Cattle are dying dy thou sands and men, women and children WEEKLY NEWS SUMMAEY. n ' :o:- HAPPENINGS IN THIS COUNTEY FOE THE PAST WEEK. Thursday. Au ist 20 The offer of 30 cents on the dollar. recently made by Stephen A. Hyan, of I Atlanta, Ga., to his creditors, has been 1 runantmoasly rejected. The president; cashier and one direc-1 tor of the defunct Citizen's Dank of Xevada. 111., have been arrested, charged with receiving deposits when ! thev knew the lank was insolvent- - Tlie btato Department at W ashing- ton has receivel word that the Island ... ... 4 of Martinique was on Monday swept ; , r i i - i i" 1 1 ov a terrific hurricane which destroyed , . y. . " ., . i i i .. I David Webler of iaileys Island, , Maine, has just iweivexl a warrant for 100 acres from the Government on account of snrvieo rniierefl nnnno' ,,' ' i, ' a' t-i i i filed on the first of September, 18."G. i r ... . ., i . i I,! A1V n til V tw IUIV V C IM IVO A kllCOVtl i , , - , , - , - - his property for the benefit of hist daughter and her children. He gives - v to Harvard College all the books from his library as the library of the college does not possess. Friday Augu t -1 Dallas, Texas, was visited yesterday hy a 400,000 fire. Reports sav that the Kichmond Ter j minal Connuuiy lias been obli-ed to 1 borrow money with which to pay a to coupons falling due. September 1st. The immense brewing business of the Anheiiser Busch Brewing Associa tion, at St. Louis, Mo., is reported sold to an English syndicate for ft 1 0,000,. 000. Tj. II Mace & Co's immense plant iand lumlier yard at New York was totally destroyed by fire last night. Tlie loss, which is nearly $2."0,000 is only partially insured. A package f genuine old Spanish doubloons was received at the Xe.w York Assay Office last Thursday from Ladenburg, Thaiman 5: Co. It con tained 4,000 ounces and was worth $72,000. The Southern Lumlier Company of Atlanta, (Ja., owning two large mills in South Georgia .--and about 2,300 acres of land, has been' placed in a receiver's hands. The liabilities are estimated to be about ftl2.",0.00. Saturday,' August 22 Some localities in Missouri and Illi nois were visited yesterday by' severe earthquake shocks but no damage was done. The Fairly National Bank at Mont- gw.ueo, .v.., uu..w p: - The directors state that the 8iisiension will be only aitemporary one. One masketl man took five mail ( sacks from the stage, on Thurslay evening, that runs lietween Princeville l and Canyon, Oregon. The robbery was accomplished with the aid of a Winchester rifle. The death of Iuter-State Commerce Com missioner. AY alur , L . Bragg, of Alabama, took place; yesterday, :at Snrinif Lake. N.- J.His fdealh-iar iriouicti 10 wonnus receive w,.ue an officer tn the Confederate army. R.G. Dun & Cos weekly review of trade says, : that during the . past week '"attention has leen absorbed by jgenerat uusiness uoes wen, wuuj Z w.. a ... . 1 . AI. br2nches base4j ou an actUai increase " of demaml . from the farming States. j Huim. uUi still dull aavl: I monev at man v; points. Failures ! for thVpast wool: 21G Wnst 227 for 1 the previous week, - LoweU LftS fi,eil . the Mldaieaux ' j 10,000 damage to a five story granite o . aIM,',jl"W York, occupied by E. of slli)stantiu!,y lhe whole of ! t. Irseman, importer of toys, etc., gomery, Ala., have made an assign- court house and records. The loss is ineut forthe benefit-of their creditors, jabout 50,004 with very little insur llfejr a-ts are alout $75fO.iO and ?ance. liabilities $30,000. Iocal money strin gency caused the faiiura New -York bank now hold $14, 1 10,130 In excess of the miiirements jf Uie23 per .cent., rale,-'- - z Tlie hcense or no license election at Stauuton, Va., was carried for license hT 92 majority. The contest was an eitiug one. Two large buildings at 70 and 72 1 ark I lace, New ork weredestioyed yesterday aftern by a mysterious xplasion. The bnildings were com- P1 colUI tok firc diately. It is thought that at least i fttt fttPCAIifi nmn lkiipiiul tn tlm w. inn w H 7" - . . llonday. August 24. ' , . Secretary of the Treasury roster, , ' held a private consultation esterday, at a' Long Branch hotel, with several of the leading bankers of the country. X killing frost is 'reported from Elleudale, X.-.D.; yesterday, which did S: - five per cent of the wheat and oat crop has lieen harvested. An early Sunday morning firc did 11. : itiHi r i-rris irus.. corsset iiiuiiuiaeiurers A social rnw-ting w;is held yesterday 1U v,iarcnuon nau, .nbw 1 orK, oy Typographical Union No. C, attended by over 800 men. It was resolved ! that hereafter no member within the jurisdiction of Xo. G, shall work under a uon uuion forema" ' Pottsville, Pa., was visited yesterday b' a ltructivo- cloudburst and the waU'r Puml - d.UWM in tor,'enti5 for over an hour. Many families were driven ;o the upper stories of their dwellings. It .was the worst storm ever, known in Pottsville, and the damage is estimated at $100,000. Several other towns were similarly visited. Tuesday, August 25. Thirty dive lodics have thus far lcen taken from the ruins in Park Place, Xew York. It is said that these build ings were condemned, as unsafe, some thirteen years ao. A phenomenal cold wave struck Iowa on Sunday and Monday, the thermometer .quickly, dropping from 00 degrees to 'degrois?. Crops are too far advanced to be injured. W. E. Deshiehl. a prominent real estate auent of Richmond, Va., has been arrested 0:1 a warrant charging him with forging the naine of J. L Ludwig. of Pittsburg, Pa., 'to two promissory notes. Two negroes have been arrested near Memphis, Tenn., and have con fessed to having attempted' to wreck an accommodation train on the main line of the Illinois Central railroad on Sundav. The situation at.Fiudlav. Ohio, oil itlll! Lakt! KnV& Wesutrn railroad strike is unchangeil. Xot a wheel on a freight car oh any one of the divi sions has turned miicc last Monday night. The general manager has laid off all the clerks, there beiug 110 work for them to do. Wednesday. August 26 The army worm is doing great damage 'o the cotton crop in Arkansas. Up to last night, forty one bodies had been : recovered from the Park , 1W ruiu ia Nt,w Vork citv A construction train was wrecked yestcr(jar fort y miles west of Saanah, j Ga fciihng two men, woundinand j iir;,F ftv nth 1 a great change in the temperature in . . - . rorted from some places, ; 1 jThc tnal trips of the new u. Bennington and Concord, which took place last week, were successful. according to rerts received from the j . Navy Ijvirtmen ... . A Fort Smith, ..Ark apeciaL aay that the town of Charleston was . burned -Monday night, induJiag the THE STATE CAPITAL. LEADING TOPICS OF THE AT RALEIGH IUlficii, K. C Augtwt 25. Of course the quarrel bet were the Xews and Observer and the Progress! -e Farmer, or rather its editors, Messrs. Polk and Ramsey, causes a great deal of IaIIt hir vlinro cinttin m alw.JS welcome OA Polk cmo yn" not " n.cl,nuly bu,U.nB tr - I ,:, . this year as there was in 1890. ii-iuaj. iic uu verv iiuiu io say. His paper will do some talking next week, no doubt. The Xews and Ob- server is keeping up a brisk fire upon him A radical langhod to-day at the quarrel and said, 'The Third party will be formed. It will carry the State. It will capture the negro Alliance men of whom there are over 20,000. It will also turn over many white repub licans. Some of these will like the new party by reason of its novelty and its change of association, some because they will do anything to defeat the old democratic iarty." This is interesting, as it shows that the radicals are chuck ling and waiting for anything to turn up. The quarrels are unfortunate. The Alliance men if they form the Third 'party will claim that it is the real democratic parly. They call the party the People's Party." The car toon on the first page of the Progres sive Farmer to-day shows clearer than any words that that paper favors the new party, and that Col. Polk favors it. There is a great assemblage of C re- men at Durham, the attention being the meeting of their State 'Association The bad weather and heavy rains put quite a damper upon it. Two days will be devoted to tournaments Raleigh boasts of the smallest dwarf in the South. He was born in Harnett county, is over 21 years old, and is '.I feet o inches high. He was raised in Raleigh and went to the public schools here. His sister is equally small. His name is James Lanier. He will go upon the road after the Expo sition. He is much smaller than the late Tom' Thumb. The largest, phosphate ir.ills in tho State are now nearly completed here Tho acid room, whose tanks, of lead, weigh ninety tons, is 240x40 feet, while the mill proper is 300x120 feet. The 'phosphate to be treated will be brought here from some joint near Wilmington. The pressure for admission into tho institution for the deaf and dumb and the blind is verv ercat. Last term both the white and colored depart mcnts were overcrowded. Xow there are 50 new applicants, not one of whom can be taken in. To this date over $130,000 of the $404,000 direct tax refunded has been paid out to claimants by the State By the end of the year nearly all wil have been paid out. There is no sort of chance for that 25,000 which the Legislature foolishly appropriated('f) out of this fund. Xo legislature ever did a sillier thing, or won more cheap and misapplied compliments. Xext Thursday the Agricultural and Mechanical College, with, more than 150 students, nearly double the number present last term; with new machinery etc., will be opened. The only drawback is that tlie new donub toris are only partially completed. In this district 420 bonds of make rs of brandy from peache?, apples and grapf?sTiave thus far been filed to date. There are very few in the lower Cape Fear section. What are known as the State Days" at the Southern Exposition have been set. Fourteen States will be re-f 1 , m v . , speakers. Thousands upon thousands of people will be here. The cheap rates loniy one cent a mtie irom any . e . v -m i point in the Lnited Stat) will -bnng 1 . them. It is a great opportunity for VnHliarn n&ifJd tn KM fltA fiillth A Till i o .u j they will avail themselves of h: Thia themselves of it. This . . . .. j a grand exhibit, made , . .. , cnt of Agriculture and State will have . by the Department thirty counties. It is Xorth Carolina's m.Wn onnortumtv. i our hundred land tifiy Xortbern newsptjer men will be here during the Exposition. Tlieso should be shown the State. October 15 at the Kxjiojtiiion will lie Confederate Veteran day. It ii proposed to have then tlie greatest re union ever held in Xorth Carolina. Tle plan is considered feasible, The gratling of another railway ha just bee a completed.- it is the line to Muifreesboro ana track-laying will begin this week if the weather permits. . The August crop report shows that the condition of the cotton crop is about 75 percent. With a late fall it promises to be a very fair crop. It is very much behintL The corn crop is unusually large. Tobacco .is quite; satisfactory, taken as a whole. On the next rulo day in . the Federal Court here Judge Seymour will file a decree in the case involving, the ownership of Bald Head or Smith's Island, removiug tlie heirs the late Thomas P. Devervux and the former trustee, and appoint a new trustee. lhe value ol railway track in the State is a&eksel at $10,528,000 by the railway commission; roiling stock $1,083,000; other property $52. 750. ti The longest road is the Cajw Fear k Yadkin Valley, 350 miles. The Jaw requires the trustees (eh-c ted, by the legislature) f the Slate Normal and ' Industrial School for while girls to be divided by the State Board of Education into three clashes, serving two, four and six years. The : Board lias just divided thorn as follows: Class one. It. D. Gilmer, A. C. Mc Allister, M. C. S Xoble; class two, J. M. Spainhour, it 1L Staucilt, 11 F. Aycock; class three, H. U. Chatham, E. McK. Goodwin, W. P. Shaw. The trustees expected to select a site for the College, at Greensboro, last week, but failed to agree. 0UB WILMINGTON LETTER. Tke weather continues to I of a - character termed, tred-hot,M and for tunate those AViltningtonians who are able to get away from tlie city during theselayF. Blowing Rock has been the chief resort of many of our citi zens this summer, and the popularity " of the place can be appreciated when it is said that word had to be sent to Lenoir, the nearest railroad station, where tourists stopped, before taking the stage to Blowing Rock, to stop all travelers, as every place was complete ' ly filled. Ocean View and the Reach hare claimed many heated City eople, who could not get farther away. These resorts have fairly, supplied the local news items for the papers, for with the several balloon ascensions at tempts, failures and successes, salt wter dashes, and cooing couples, the reporters have filled space and supplied copy. Last week we had the Fayette villa Infantry boys. TI10 wearing of the Gray imssed unremarked, and the recent discussions between regular blue' and 'independent gray were laid aside, if not forgotten. Certainly the Fajetteville boys had the freedom of , the town and were royally entertained. ' The alrnrwt constant rain, since last Sunday has not as jet cooled off the atmosphere, but makes It fully as dis agreeable as before. The '-Cold Wave at this writing is still looked for. The half holiday season Is nearly over, and our merchants are looking forward to a largely increased trade with tlie fall morcment of crops. Some of our largest buyers are-now m the Xorth securing goods for tlie fall and winter demand. The last few weeks have been pro- Id active of several local business Irre- Sgulanttet which on account of the . , ,.- position of the jjarties, the AVilmlngton j per luive not thought bet to pub- ? . lwh, and as it would lordly I nghl - . . ! to cx them by givtrg your ' ; j ;reaaers names ana aeiaii, i wm no &rf :.vm. i ... , J . I Indications promise more life and f - r - . , ., . , tgaveiy in oar social world soon, and u tQ lbe o( lu ; excursion parties and soldiers, an: , haire some rt-al hoirte ioiiiks oa. - Arstr.
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